discussion YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled

[KevinKDC]

First time when living in 3rd world country is beneficial to me. No ads *****

[TaggedGalaxy]

I haven't run into any issues yet using uBlock Origin and Firefox

[MoonGoodandHappy]

yes and ? i have youtube premium. 

[NoOneDiesFromLove]

My laptop is slow regardless so YouTube can suck it, I’ll keep my adblocker on 

[scenekiller]

2 hours ago, Cherish said:

How about offering premium for cheaper at first? SMH 

This. Like why not offer cheaper plans with less features?

 

I don't want to pay $13 for all the other nonsense I get, just let me pay like $3-5 a month for an ad block feature and/or background play.

[Dante]

Lord i was losing my mind, cleaning my laptop memory and deleting stuff

 

yet only YouTube was acting up so it made no sense, thank you for clarifying.  

[Illuminati]

Susan wasn't pulling stunts like this back when she was the CEO

[HealerKirby]

Oooh so this is why it has been so slow the last few days 

well I can get Youtube Premium for like 2 dollars/month (family plan) where I live so I guess I will pay for that 

[Bubble Tea]

13 hours ago, nathanspears said:

I ended up just paying for premium

 

Same the ads were KILLING ME! Still have to suffer through so much in-video sponsorship crap (I got so close to ordering some god damn athletic greens but mercifully found a cheaper alternative).

 

Pay up girlies. 

[Komet]

Bootlicking for a multi-BILLION company is wild

 

anyway I'll use ublock origin even harder now  

[Afterglow]

I hate the ads, and was pissed when this was happening to me that past few days. I eventually tried disabling ad block and it works like a charm. Disgusting of them tbh.

 

I have anxiety and use YouTube to calm myself by watching relaxing resort walk-through and travel videos with calm music, and they interrupt every 5 minutes with loud commercials literally about fleshlights... like what? If you're gonna show commercials at least have them slightly relate to the video style being watched. 

Edited January 15 by Afterglow

[Alldeezy]

I pay for fuckin youtube and it's been slow for me

 

Just because I have adblock on but it shouldn't matter if I have a premium 

 

I was wondering why its been extremely slow for me I was blaming my internet service 

[Witchpop]

Firefox and uBlock Origin don't have this issue. Youtube is blazing fast for me and any time Youtube updates their ads, uBlock is right there within hours with a fix.

 

Youtube won't ever win but it's fun to watch them try  

[Dialamba]

I don’t mind ads but ads every 5 minutes you can’t even watch a 10 minutes videos without ads. Why would I pay 13$ for a greedy corporation  Mind you the audio quality is **** 

[MasterExpose]

I figured it was that. Mine would slowdown almost like freezing and sometimes videos playing would stop midway black screen as if there was supposed to be an ad there but wouldn't play. Still no turning it off

[Maroonx]

they can kiss my a**, I have two add blockers on 

[velocity]

On 1/14/2024 at 4:35 PM, Dephira said:

Still don’t understand why people feel entitled to watch YouTube with no ads and without paying. It’s extremely expensive to host video, and it’s well within Googles right to clamp down on ad blockers, even if it’s personally inconvenient for me as I don’t pay for YouTube premium 

god yes please will someone please think of the 200+ BILLION DOLLAR revenue company. how will they ever afford it

[Kiel D-01]

Y'all,  start using 'Remove AdBlock Thing' instead of the mainstream ad blockers. What it does is it still lets YT 'load' ads but get intercepted quickly. The ad will essentially interrupt the video you are watching by like 1 second at most. YT doesn't detect it because it's tricking YT into thinking that the ads get 'played'. I have been using it since YT started cracking down on mainstream ad blockers. 

 

It's only really effective when using YT however so I'd still recommend using traditional ad blockers such as 'AdBlock' for everything else. Just disable them for YT.

 

Hope this helps.  

Edited January 15 by Kiel D-01

[Kamil24]

thanks for this thread. I had ads but now I got uBlock Origin

[DamianSolo]

It's gross how desperately greedy these companies are, with ever-rising subscription costs just so they can give themselves these big fat bonuses.

[Terylee]

I always copy the video link, paste it in the ATRL comment section, it embeds and I can watch it without problems.

[TROJAN]

YouTube is outdated 

[tost1]

I would never pay for YouTube, f them